9.
Take advantage!
• TabViz won 'Best in Class: Innovation" and
this earned them a lot of attention &
writeups on various tech websites
• I got an internship as a direct result of
being able to show the design work I did in
a Mozilla Design Challenge.
• There are lots of opportunities for
collaboration and Mozilla is really excited
to work with students.

10.
Browsing History
How can we make sense of this rich source
of data and how do we best present this data
to the user?
• Save your browsing history and make it easily
accessible
• Let the system give good advice in a user-
friendly way

11.
Think outside typical
browsing history...
How can we use past browsing behaviors to
augment current and future behaviors?

12.
Research
• Most people don’t use browser history - it’s either too
complicated or they don’t know it exists. They use search engines or
reconstruct the path to the webpage.
• People often keep the browser open for days at a time
• Colors/images are easier to remember than URLs/textual descriptions
• Frequency of visitation - we visit different sites in different patterns
• “Fast” - short-term, high-volume pattern, like shopping
• “Medium” - regular hourly checking like email/news sites
• “Slow” - rare but regular visits like to personal interest sites
• Idea: segment the history so that it treats these pages differently
according to the user's patterns
• More ideas: predict if a page is due to be revisited soon, make it available
to the user. Change color of URLs depending on if it is predicted to be of
interest to the user.

14.
Today’s Plan
• 10 minutes: do 10 sketches in 10 minutes,
individually
• 25 minutes: form groups of 2 or 3 with at
least 1 person you don’t know, share your
ideas and choose a few to develop on the
whiteboard
• 40 minutes: share your whiteboard sketches
with the group, give and receive feedback
• Rest of the time - mingle, talk to people
whose ideas were interesting to you!

15.
The rest of the
challenge
• Interested in someone’s idea? Think about
collaborating!
• October 8th - ﬁrst checkpoint, bring
your progress to SOCHI show and tell
(sketches, mockups, whatever!) and get
feedback
• November 1 - end of challenge, submit
work (a video to show your idea is ideal)